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British and cultural
In other countries ( and in some, particularly smaller, British and North American universities ), anthropologists have also found themselves institutionally linked with scholars of folklore, museum studies, human geography, sociology, social relations, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and social work.
Before WWII British ' social anthropology ' and American ' cultural anthropology ' were still distinct traditions.
Later, rapid social change and the dissipation of British cultural hegemony over its former colonies contributed to disputes over the role of women, the parameters of marriage and divorce, and the practice of contraception and abortion.
English cultural influence ( reinforced at the end of the 19th century and beginnings of the 20th by British contacts with the Far East ) has also made the consumption of tea very common.
Although principally a museum of cultural art objects and antiquities today, the British Museum was founded as a " universal museum ".
This includes a shared British cultural heritage, warfare during the 1770s and 1812, and the eventual development of one of the most stable and mutually-beneficial international relationships in the modern world.
A cultural definition of Europe as the lands of Latin Christendom coalesced in the 8th century, signifying the new cultural condominium created through the confluence of Germanic traditions and Christian-Latin culture, defined partly in contrast with Byzantium and Islam, and limited to northern Iberia, the British Isles, France, Christianized western Germany, the Alpine regions and northern and central Italy.
Husserl describes here the cultural crisis gripping Europe, then approaches a philosophy of history, discussing Galileo, Descartes, several British philosophers, and Kant.
* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.
Although production levels give an overview, the history of British cinema is complex, with various cultural movements developing independently.
Four of the top seven highest-grossing films worldwide of all time have some British historical, cultural or creative dimensions: Titanic, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
British colonies typically flew a flag based on one of the ensigns based on this flag, and many former colonies have retained the design to acknowledge their cultural history.
The festival's chief executive, Richard Moore, compared Loach's tactics to blackmail, stating that " we will not participate in a boycott against the State of Israel, just as we would not contemplate boycotting films from China or other nations involved in difficult long-standing historical disputes .” Australian lawmaker Michael Danby also criticised Loach ’ s tactics stating that “ Israelis and Australians have always had a lot in common, including contempt for the irritating British penchant for claiming cultural superiority.
The word meme is a shortening ( modeled on gene ) of mimeme ( from Ancient Greek μίμημα mīmēma, " something imitated ", from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai, " to imitate ", from μῖμος mimos " mime ") and it was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene ( 1976 ) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.
In many of the following terms corresponding to British cultural influence, areas of relatively low mean population density might bear a title of an entity one would expect to be either larger or smaller.
The small British enclave of the city of Gibraltar presents a third cultural group found in the straits.
In 1977, British cultural theorist Paul Willis published a study titled " Learning to Labor ", in which he investigated the connection between social class and education.
* The " British Committee for Relations with Other Countries ", which will become the British Council, is set up to foster cultural relations.
Second Coming received a mixed reception from the British press, which music journalist Simon Reynolds attributed to " the resentment that the Roses, divorced from the cultural moment that gave them meaning, were now just another band ".
Heyerdahl claimed that cultural and physical similarities existed between these British Columbian tribes, Polynesians, and the Old World source.
Britpop groups brought British alternative rock into the mainstream and formed the backbone of a larger British cultural movement called Cool Britannia.

British and legacy
The lasting legacy of the denarius can be seen in the use of " d " as the abbreviation for the British penny prior to 1971.
The system of government in Malaysia is closely modeled on that of Westminster parliamentary system, a legacy of British colonial rule.
There is also a railway network, but it is largely a legacy of British colonial rule and today only handles a small fraction of the country's transport needs.
The Worcestershire variety became popular in the 1840s and is a legacy of the British rule of the Indian subcontinent.
In April 2007, an exhibition titled Princess Line – The Fashion Legacy of Princess Margaret opened at Kensington Palace, showcasing contemporary fashion from British designers such as Vivienne Westwood inspired by Princess Margaret's legacy of style.
From 27 February 2012, the BBC is broadcasting Paxman's series Empire, examining the history and legacy of the British Empire.
The British Admiralty Hydrographic Office became the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office which continues the legacy within the Ministry of Defence with responsibility for the Admiralty Charts.
This legacy originally provided for scholarships for the British colonies, the United States, and Germany.
The British Poetry Revival was a wide-reaching collection of groupings and subgroupings that embraces performance, sound and concrete poetry as well as the legacy of Pound, Jones, MacDiarmid, Loy and Bunting, the Objectivist poets, the Beats and the Black Mountain poets, among others.
Historian Tom Buchanan notes that in parts of the British public at the time, " Cruelty and violence were thought to be ' old Spanish customs ' — due in equal parts to the legacy of the Inquisition and the bull-ring.
Sergeant presented this BBC Series on the humble beginnings of the British Indian Railway and its legacy.
The British music magazine, NME, commented on Slade's legacy in a review of a greatest hits album, " They embodied the glorious absurdity of the greatest pop, in the sideburns, the mirrored top hat and Dave Hill's pudding bowl haircut.
It is a legacy from her uncle, a corrupt British army officer who served in India.
Few of his paintings still exist, but his surviving sketch-books ( one in the British Museum and one in the Louvre ) show an interest in landscape and elaborate architectural design and are his most important legacy.
The non-partisan British group is dedicated to " pursuit of a robust foreign policy ... based on clear universal principles such as the global promotion of the rule of law, liberal democracy, civil rights, environmental responsibility and the market economy " as part of " Henry Jackson's legacy.
The UK has a parliamentary government based on the Westminster system that has been emulated around the world — a legacy of the British Empire.
As a legacy from colonial times, several states in the West Indies still had the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as the court of final appeal ; although the death penalty has been retained in these states, the Privy Council would sometimes delay or deny executions.
But a legacy of Britishness also survives around the world: a shared history of British presence in the Commonwealth of Nations has produced a substantial body of writing in many languages, known as Commonwealth literature.
For a long time, there has been a great deal of discussion in British politics about the Blairite legacy.
A prominent figure in British nationalism in the second-half of the twentieth century, Tyndall's legacy has been highly controversial among political opponents, including some members of the contemporary BNP under his successor Nick Griffin.
Present-day Maltese culture is essentially Latin European with the recent British legacy also in evidence.
The Standard believed Tung's reason to stay away from the mansion was political: a subtle effort to reduce the age-old British legacy over Hong Kong.
Sectarianism in Australia is an historical legacy from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, between Catholics of mainly Irish background and Protestants of mainly British heritage.
In 2005 the British television channel Channel 4 ran a documentary, I Love Carbuncles, which placed the U. K .' s Brutalist legacy in a more positive light.

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